As Lakeway Presbyterian Church in Morristown, TN, prepares to particularize next year, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on the...

It’s been several years since we’ve had the pleasure of announcing a new church plant in the Tennessee Valley Presbytery, but this fall,...

The Nashville Presbytery’s desire to plant churches has been growing for a while, and this year, that momentum began to be channeled...

Pastor Alton Hardy and Tristen Bryant of Urban Hope Community Church and Manifold Vision joined Tennessee Valley Presbytery’s church...

Sometimes, the start of a plant comes after years of prayer and preparation, but other times, God brings the right pieces together much more quickly.

July was a busy month for Rural Church Development, first hosting a tent revival and then the annual small town pastor’s retreat.

There are more counties in the Tennessee Valley Presbytery that don’t have a PCA church than those that do. Seventeen of TVP’s counties...

Our first Church Planting Network gathering of 2025 featured two guests who spoke on two aspects of preaching. The goal of the gathering...

Those of you who have followed our church planting efforts for a while will likely remember when Corby Shields moved from Rock Creek...

Curt and Suzi Stapleton have been in Athens, TN since 2021, planting Redeemer Athens. The church started in 2022, and in its second full...

As you may recall from an email this past December, the Tennessee Valley Presbytery created a five-year plan to carry us forward to 2030....

As the Woodlands Gathering community grows, the church is improving their building and continues to offer cultural education...

Erik and Maggie McDaniel’s family of six children includes one they adopted as an infant, three siblings they adopted as kids, and...

Karen and Carl Ellis with students at the Edmiston Center Karen Ellis, a student and professor of Christian Endurance Studies, is the...

“For the first time in eight decades that Gallup has tracked American religious membership, more adults in the United States do not...

This July, Corey Pelton hosted Rural Church Development’s first Small Town Pastor’s Retreat for pastors who are ministering in small...

“A good coach is trained to come alongside rather than tell you how to do things. Ministry is demanding and exhausting, but a good coach..."

David Gentino visited the Tennessee Valley Presbytyery’s Church Planting Network gathering on April 30th to talk about evangelistically...

Coinciding with his unconventional ministry setup, Corey Pelton, leader of Rural Church Development (RCD) in north Georgia, likes to...

Each presbytery has a committee of local leaders who report to Mission to North America (MNA). The Tennessee Valley Presbytery designated...